Question

Q11. Read the following extract and answers that follow: 1x5=5

The poetry of earth is ceasing ever:

On a lone winter evening when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills

The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost;

The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

a) What is special about the poetry of the earth?

b) What has the frost done?

c) Whose song is heard from the stone?

d) How is the warmth of the song?

e) Name the poem and the poet.​

Answer 1

Republic Day is celebrated every year on 26 January to commemorate the day the Constitution of India came into effect. Even though we had gained independence on 15 August, 1947, nascent India did not have its own laws which were drafted and finally adopted in the year 1950